Disability India Journal
Volume III– Issue XXXXVII
Decemeber 2007
Week 3

Article of the Week
  • Inclusive Education – Making it a reality
Non – Government Initiatives
  • Bokakhat: Seminar of RTI
  • Jabalpur: Rally flagged by Police DIG
  • Nagaon: Arsenic laden water leads to rise in incidence
Government Initiatives
  • Ambernath: Minister gifts poor quality aids
  • Bokakhat: 8,425 persons identified
  • Chennai: Exclusive survey planned
  • Karnataka: Employment portal launched
  • Kolkata: Not a means of entertainment
  • Lucknow: Many new schemes announced
  • New Delhi: PCOs for 20
  • New Delhi: Ex servicemen spared the tax cuts
  • Shimla: Now in the political manifesto!
Court Orders
  • Bangalore: 5% teaching quota to be filled
  • Chennai: PIL on reservation
  • New Delhi: Visually impaired women exempt from AAI written tests
  • New Delhi: DDA to furnish report
Institutions
  • Mumbai: National Institute of the Hearing Handicapped
  • New Delhi: Family of Disabled
Perspective
  • Mental illness as disability
  • Independent living – For freedom!
  • Bangalore: Employment in the private sector
With a Will to Do
  • Bangalore: Dr Satish Amarnath
  • New Delhi: Employees and aspirants have this to say…
  • Vindhyachal: Veena Mehta Verma
Sports
  • Pune: VIII National Paralympic Swimming Championship 2007
Art & Media
  • Music: Airtel–Rotary Parallel Music Fest–2007
  • Film: Taare Zameen Par
Technology
  • Smart pen and paper
Editor: Dr Madhumita Puri